Issue 32 - Fourth Quarter 2003

Has upcoming poll yielded full roll-out? Virginia van der Vliet traces the history of ANC denial and procrastination on HIV/Aids. A critical appraisal of the Mbeki presidency: Thabo Mbeki has shown great skill in co-opting the emerging black elite and silencing critical voices.

Steering 'twixt tyranny and anarchy

Single-party dominance is not new to post-apartheid South Africa, as manifest in the proceedings of a conference.

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Has upcoming poll yielded full roll-out?

Virginia van der Vliet traces the history of ANC denial and procrastination on HIV/Aids.

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2004 election: High stakes, low interest

David Welsh argues that Mbeki's handling of the Zuma-Ngcuka dispute has not improved his image as a strong leader.

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DA raises its profile in black townships

While the ANC has constituted itself as a mass party, the DA has shown that it has pockets of township support.

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Design flaws impede policy implementation

Lawrence Schlemmer thinks that delivery problems may be more complex than orthodox opinion realises.

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A critical appraisal of the Mbeki presidency

Thabo Mbeki has shown great skill in co-opting the emerging black elite and silencing critical voices.

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More democracy isn't always a good thing

Democracy may be a necessary condition for human rights... but it is not necessarily a sufficient condition.

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JM Coetzee incites an ANC egg-dance

The ANC's celebration of Coetzee's Nobel Prize while castigating him as a racist is crass expediency. By Patrick Laurence.

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A wounded lioness or a recuperating lynx?

Past predictions of Madikizela-Mandela's political demise have failed to materialise.

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